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Re: Kstat was right

I'm sorry to say this but I never got to see the Larry Johnson play. I've heard of it and the subsequent results but can someone in detail explain what happened on that play?

1. Foul
2. Dribble
3. Shot
4.Put him on the line...

I know someone will give you explicits, but that is it in a nutshell to me...

To this day I still cannot believe that call, it will go down as the worst call against the Pacers ever. The reason why it will is because it was not a judgement call, it would be like giving a player three free throws when a guy misses but gets fouled on a 10 ft shot. It wasn't just a bad call it was a wrong call

Re: Kstat was right

I'm sorry to say this but I never got to see the Larry Johnson play. I've heard of it and the subsequent results but can someone in detail explain what happened on that play?

1. Foul
2. Dribble
3. Shot
4.Put him on the line...

I know someone will give you explicits, but that is it in a nutshell to me...

Good synopsis except didn't something like 15 minutes pass between the foul and the shot? It seems like the officials looked around, saw they were in the Garden and decided they had better make a call if they wanted to get out of the building alive.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
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Re: Kstat was right

Horrible call - no doubt.

May have cost the Pacers the game but ...

Indy had just pissed away an 8-pt lead in less than a minute. That's a BIGGER reason they lost that game.

Sort of like Reggie's 8 pts in 16 seconds. Yeah, he shoved Greg Anthony to the floor to make a steal but that doesn't mean the Knicks didn't choke - if they'd done what they should've it would never have gotten to that point.

Re: Kstat was right

Horrible call - no doubt.

May have cost the Pacers the game but ...

Indy had just pissed away an 8-pt lead in less than a minute. That's a BIGGER reason they lost that game.

Sort of like Reggie's 8 pts in 16 seconds. Yeah, he shoved Greg Anthony to the floor to make a steal but that doesn't mean the Knicks didn't choke - if they'd done what they should've it would never have gotten to that point.

I am saying this a little tongue in cheek, the incident occurred 5 seasons ago so it is history, but it is easy to make up an 8 point deficit when you score 4 pts per play.

The Pacers did not give up an 8 point lead in less than a minute. The way I remember it, Pacers had an 8 point lead with 3 minutes to go. I still have the game on tape, if anyone really cares i could go back and watch it and let you know

Re: Kstat was right

The Pacers did not give up an 8 point lead in less than a minute. The way I remember it, Pacers had an 8 point lead with 3 minutes to go. I still have the game on tape, if anyone really cares i could go back and watch it and let you know

Re: Kstat was right

I'm sorry to say this but I never got to see the Larry Johnson play. I've heard of it and the subsequent results but can someone in detail explain what happened on that play?

1. Foul
2. Dribble
3. Shot
4.Put him on the line...

I know someone will give you explicits, but that is it in a nutshell to me...

Good synopsis except didn't something like 15 minutes pass between the foul and the shot? It seems like the officials looked around, saw they were in the Garden and decided they had better make a call if they wanted to get out of the building alive.

What we've left out is Slick Leonard's comment during the timeout before that play. "I'd have all five guys at half court doing pushups, that way there's no chance of a foul and a four-point play." What a horrible premonition.

I know the continuation portion was a bad call, but Antonio deserves as much blame, if not more, than Jess Kersey does. He did foul LJ, and that was just plain foolish.

Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
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